by Esayas Meskel | Mar 25, 2016 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
By Feyera Assefa (DSW Ethiopia, Country Director) When the First World Conference on Women was organized by the United Nations in mid 1970s in Mexico, gender studies had for the first time scholarly embraced ‘women and development issue’ both as a theoretical and...
by Esayas Meskel | Mar 8, 2016 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
Seven months away from the conclusion of its second phase, DSW’s project (Community-Based Responses to SRH/FP & Livelihood Needs of Married Adolescent Girls and Young Women) in East Wellega Zone has been reviewed by the high level stakeholders. On...
by Esayas Meskel | Nov 9, 2015 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
The expansion of the health sector infrastructures in Ethiopia over the past 17 years alone has pushed the country towards the ranks of the best health success stories in sub-Saharan Africa. Many health-focused NGOs, including ourselves at DSW, have expanded the scope...
by Esayas Meskel | Oct 26, 2015 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
A team of four DSW’s Board members, including one of its two founders, Mr. Dirk Rossmann along with other three associates led by Renate Baehr, Executive Director of DSW made a four-day long excursion from 17 to 21 October 2015 touring around DSW’s projects in...
by Esayas Meskel | Jul 21, 2015 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
A five-day watertight-scheduled study tour of DSW’s projects by members of the European Parliamentary Forum (EPF) took events on 11 -16 July 2015 in Ethiopia. A team of nine members of EPF who represented about six European countries was shuttled between various...